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The Old Farm

Print
1858 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Whistler (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed and published)

‘The Old Farm’, one of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature', by J.A.M. Whistler, also called 'The French Set'. 1858. Published in London by Whistler at 62 Sloane Street and in Paris at Imprimerie Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques 171. Signed in plate by the artist and lettered ‘Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171’. View of a run-down half-timbered farmhouse, in Alsace Lorraine. Also known as ‘The Unsafe Tenement’ or ‘L’Inhabitation Dangereuse’.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • The Old Farm (generic title)
  • Twelve Etchings from Nature (series title)
  • The French Set (series title)
  • The Unsafe Tenement (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching on India paper
India Paper
Printing Ink
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
'The Old Farm', etching by J.A.M. Whistler, from 'Twelve Etchings from Nature' or 'The French Set'; Paris, 1858.
Physical description
‘The Old Farm’, one of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature', by J.A.M. Whistler, also called 'The French Set'. 1858. Published in London by Whistler at 62 Sloane Street and in Paris at Imprimerie Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques 171. Signed in plate by the artist and lettered ‘Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171’. View of a run-down half-timbered farmhouse, in Alsace Lorraine. Also known as ‘The Unsafe Tenement’ or ‘L’Inhabitation Dangereuse’.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.6cm
  • Width: 22.9cm
Style
Realism
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Whistler'

    Note
    Signed in plate bottom right

  • 'Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171'

    Note
    Lettered bottom left

  • 'The unsafe tenement'

    Note
    Inscribed

Object history
W.7; K.17, 3rd state.
Subjects depicted
Poverty
Farm Buildings
Ruins
Place depicted
France
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler's Etchings, A Study and a Catalogue. London: Colnaghi & Co, 1899. No.7.
  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978. No.17, 3rd state.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
19807

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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